I've spent the past couple of days trying to get my RT2500 based wireless card to work.

It worked FLAWLESSLY with VL4.0 using the rt2500-1.1.0b4 open source driver. It seemsthe kernel developers have tinkered with the 802.11 stack in kernel >=2.6.22 and now from the three possible open source drivers I could use

Options:1) upgrade to kernel 2.6.24 and hope the bugs are worked out of the rt2x00-cvs driver (kernel2.6.24 includes the rt2x00 driver but it is anold, buggy version acording to the rt2x00 project page, sigh)

2) upgrade ndiswrapper to version 1.52 stable (Feb 2, 2008)

3) or run a cat5 upstairs for a few months while the kernel and driver developers sort things out?

I don't know why rc.inet scripts aren't setting up the device during startup. At this pointI am happy to connect at all.

Can someone explain why there are TWO files rc.inet1 , rc.inet1.conf ?For me rc.inet1 is all commented outrc.inet1.conf has these commands active:

# Default gateway IP address:GATEWAY="192.168.1.1"

# Change this to "yes" for debugging output to stdout. Unfortunately,# /sbin/hotplug seems to disable stdout so you'll only see debugging output# when rc.inet1 is called directly.DEBUG_ETH_UP="no"

## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill## in your info. (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)IFNAME[4]="wlan0"IPADDR[4]="192.168.1.99"NETMASK[4]="255.255.255.0"USE_DHCP[4]="no"#DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="icculus-wireless"#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""WLAN_ESSID[4]=mynetWLAN_MODE[4]=ManagedWLAN_RATE[4]="auto"WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="1"WLAN_KEY[4]="0000000000000000"

Should I use the command: route add default gw 192.168.1.1earlier in my manual startup process?

I removed the wlan0 entry from the ifplugd.conf to prevent it from messing up my settings.

"dmesg" shows you the kernel ring buffer boot messages only. All this happens only as the kernel is loading, long before any config scripts are run or modules are loaded. Basically, just showing hardware detected as the kernel loads.

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